The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) yesterday decried alleged human rights abuses by officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), saying cases of unprecedented violations of people’s rights abound across the country.
Accordingly, the leading human rights and civil society organisation in the country hinted that it has concluded plans to send “a proposal by way of a bill for the establishment of the Nigerian independent police complaints commission (IPCC) to be patterned after what is in place in the UK”.
National coordinator of the group, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja lamented that the police have constituted itself into a big obstacle to the rights of the citizenry.
According to him, arbitrary arrests, extortion on the roads of all the South East states and killings of persons who fail to pay bribes to police have approached unpardonable dimension.
Noting that HURIWA was not unaware of the current human rights report by the United States government “which gravely indicted Nigeria for gross human rights abuses”, Onwubiko alleged that most of these violations of the rights of Nigerian are committed by men and officers of the police,” he said,
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